- a place where a bird rests, especially a branch or bar for this purpose, for example in a bird’s cage
- a high seat or position
- He watched the game from his precarious perch on top of the wall.
- (plural perch)a freshwater fish that is sometimes used for foodTopics Fish and shellfishc2
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 2 late Middle English: the noun from perch ‘a measure of length’(from Old French perche, from Latin pertica ‘measuring rod, pole’); the verb from Old French percher. noun sense 3 late Middle English: from Old French perche, via Latin from Greek perkē.
Idioms
See perch in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryknock somebody off their pedestal/perch
- to make somebody lose their position as somebody/something successful or admired
- A lot of teams are looking to knock us off our perch.
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